The latest Pertwee-era audio drama returns to Season 7 – but is Liz Shaw really a dangerous security risk? Intelligence for War brings us back for another serious-minded 7-parter set in Jon Pertwee’s first run. Doctor Who burst into colour with the Doctor’s time and space faring curtailed as he embraced an exile on Earth. … >
Doctor Who – The Art of the Audio Adventures showcases the covers from more than twenty years of Big Finish audio dramas. As Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary approaches, there’s no end of merchandise on offer. The latest comes from Big Finish, the home of Doctor Who audio dramas – who present a volume which celebrates … >
The Partygate documentary centres on two fictional Special Advisors played by Ophelia Lovibond and Georgie Henley. With investigations into Downing Street social events during the pandemic still going strong, Channel 4 are airing a factual drama. Based on meticulous research, Partygate tells the story through dramatic re-enactments, interweaved with archive news footage and documentary interviews. … >
The Making of Doctor Who, a non-fiction work by script editor Terrance Dicks and screenwriter and novelist Malcolm Hulke first published in paperback in 1972, will be available as an audio edition in early summer. The 1972 edition was principally written by Hulke for Piccalo Books. A second 1976 edition was rewritten by Dicks in … >
There’s a new otherworldly hero – but is Kaleidoscope the real deal or just a spoonbender from space? Set in his final season, Kaleidoscope sees the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith with rivals for their positions. Consciously channelling the 1970s, this Season 11-set story brings the Doctor face to face with the Cold War … >
Originally part of ‘Masterful’, the Jon Culshaw narrated audiobook will be available to download separately. At the start of 2021, Doctor Who audio producers Big Finish released ‘Masterful’, a boxset which commemorated 40 years of the Master. While the centrepiece was a dizzying multi-episode, multi-Master tale, the late Roger Delgado’s incarnation was celebrated with a … >
Michael Troughton inherits his father’s role as Big Finish enliven a niche of Doctor Who continuity. A greying Second Doctor working for the Time Lords with an older Jamie in tow? While fans delighted at Patrick Troughton’s return for ‘The Two Doctors’, building on his appearance in the show’s 20th Anniversary Special, it was a … >
Old Friends is the last in the first batch of Big Finish’s adventures for Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor. As the cover makes clear, and indeed they concealed until release, it features a further encounter with the Cybermen. Not only that, but this incarnation of the Doctor enjoys a first encounter with his stalwart ally Brigadier … >
The Annihilators is the latest audio outing for the Third Doctor, where he encounters a former incarnation. Jon Pertwee’s first season of Doctor Who holds a special place in the heart of fans of a certain vintage. As the series burst into colour, the Doctor became an earthbound alien ally; working with the Brigadier and … >
In series 8 of her Diary, River Song (Alex Kingston) was in the company of robots, now, in The Diary of River Song series 9 New Recruit, she’s back in more familiar (to fans) territory — the era of the third Doctor Big Finish may reasonably be accused of overusing the motif of River back in the life of a … >